What follows is barely the tip of an immense iceberg of materials available on climate change. The listed resources are NOT all equal in terms of their scientific merit or political independence. As a "hot" topic, climate change lends itself to the bending or ignoring of scientific information to support various personal, professional, or political agendas. We hope that the 2008 UAB Discussion Book initiative will help students
appreciate the necessity for everyone to be quantitatively and scientifically literate;
value the integrity of scientific inquiry in the service of the common good; and
discern the difference between legitimate scientific uncertainty and the distortion of this uncertainty to sow doubt and confusion.
RESOURCES
That help you evaluate the reliability of:
Print Sources: https:/www.mhsl.uab.edu/ref/guides/web/print.sources.html
Internet Sources: https:/www.mhsl.uab.edu/ref/guides/web/internet.sources.html
Internet Resources: Web-based tutorial includes an exercise in evaluating three Internet sites on the same topic: https:/www.mhsl.uab.edu/wit/5/5m.html
That provide information on specific aspects of climate change: Additional materials on climate change can be found at https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/cc
"The Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula." James McClintock, Hugh Ducklow, and Bill Fraser. American Scientist (July-August 2008)http://www.uab.edu/images/main/Degrees_of_Excellence/DiscussionBook/08/McClintock.et.al.American.Scientist.2008.pdf
"The Economics of Climate Change." Stephan Mufson. Washington Post. (2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/14/AR2007071401246.html
"Is there a basis for global warming alarm?" Powerpoint by Richard Lindzen (Profesor of Atmospheric Science, MIT, 2005) http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/climate/forms/LindzenYaleMtg.pdf
"Climate Change and the University." Interview with Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton, authors of Degrees that Matter: Climate Change and the University (2007) http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/01/climate
That present an overview of climate change issues:
Climate scientists discussing related scientific issues: http://www.realclimate.org/
Site with facts, pros and cons of different perspectives, and public opinion about the issues: http://www.publicagenda.org/citizen/issueguides/environment/
Climate Connections, a year-long series from National Public Radio and National Geographic on how we are shaping climate and how climate is shaping us: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9657621
NYT reporter Andrew Revkin's blog on environmental issues: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/
Index to a set of youtube videos by a high school teacher explaining issues related to how each of us can decide what, if anything, we as individuals can or should do about climate change:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oCYW4ScUnw&feature=user
That present clearly opposing views on climate change:
Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth (2006) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/
Martin Durkin's film The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007)
http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.co.uk/
That were locally developed to support the 2008 UAB Discussion Book initiative:
Campus Conversations: Essays on the Environment inspired by the 2008 Discussion Book will be distributed free across campus in August 2008